Carleton Now - April 2008

Volume 6, Issue 4
April 2008

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Student designs new paralympic skis
In collaboration with the Canadian Paralympic Foundation, fourth-year industrial design student Brian Bazett has developed a prototype of a roller sit ski. Bazett designed the ski to enable paralymic athletes to compete in a new sport category. In the photo, he consults with student colleague Justin Frappier on the prototype. Bazett and Frappier are two of the students whose work will be showcased at the 30th annual industrial design graduation exhibition from April 19 to 22, in the Carleton University Art Gallery.

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Canadian men’s basketball championship scores a successful move to Ottawa
Halifax was home to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national men’s basketball tournament for 24 years and some folks wondered if the games could draw significant interest if held outside of Atlantic Canada. However, the positive response of spectators and TV viewers to the 2008 championship, that took place in Ottawa, proves that fans of university basketball are alive, well and living across Canada.

Ontario invests $5 million in chemistry ‘super labs’
Students taking a first-year chemistry, organic chemistry or food science and nutrition course this fall will be the first to enter the new “super labs” in the Steacie Building, says George Iwama, dean of the Faculty of Science. He adds that “if you have seen or worked in the old labs, you might think you had just stepped into the future.

Stellar evolution: Science Café invites public discussion
Instructor Pam Wolff, director of the integrated science institute, led the third Science Café on March 5, 2008 at the Wild Oat Café in the Glebe. Wolff spoke to an enthusiastic crowd about the birth and death of stars and how amateur astronomers can see most of a star’s life stages for themselves with a backyard telescope. The Faculty of Science hosts the Science Café in order to give the general public the opportunity to discuss scientific issues and topics of interest.

A message of thanks from Lee and Annette Crawford
Vanessa Leigh Crawford, December 15, 1988 – January 23, 2008
As this school year draws to a close I would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of those who gave us the hugs, flowers, donations, cards, letters and e-mails from Carleton and the Ottawa area. It has been overwhelming to see the lives Vanessa has touched. Her work here on earth has ended, but it is now up to each one of us to keep her memory alive.

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